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  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Pranab Bardhan is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and works primarily in the field of social sciences. Their research spans several subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, development, economics and econometrics, and anthropology.

The primary topics of Bardhan's work focus on politics and society in Latin America, social and economic development in India, international development and aid, political conflict and governance, China's socioeconomic reforms and governance, local government finance and decentralization, as well as anthropological studies and insights.

Recent scholarly publications by Bardhan include the following papers:

  • The Chinese governance system: Its strengths and weaknesses in a comparative development perspective, 2020, China Economic Review
  • Clientelism and governance, 2021, World Development
  • Inequality and Capitalism in India, 2022, Studies in Indian Politics
  • Clientelism and governance, 2021, Working Paper Series
  • Governance Issues in Economic Development, 2020, University Library Heidelberg

Bardhan's frequent collaborators include Dilip Mookherjee, Samuel Bowles, Michael Wallerstein, Sandip Mitra, and Anusha Nath.

Bardhan has contributed to academic publishing through book work, including a publication titled A World of Insecurity released in 2022 by Harvard University Press.

Throughout their career, Bardhan has published in various notable venues such as China Economic Review, World Development, Studies in Indian Politics, Quantitative Economics, and University Library Heidelberg.

In recognition of academic achievements, Bardhan was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Corruption and Development: A Review of Issues

    Pranab Bardhan

  • Decentralization of Governance and Development

    Pranab Bardhan

  • The Political Economy of Development in India: Expanded Edition with an Epilogue on the Political Economy of Reform in India

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels

    Pranab K. Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions

    Pranab Bardhan

  • Irrigation and cooperation: an empirical analysis of 48 irrigation communities in South India.

    Pranab Bardhan

  • Credit markets and patterns of international trade

    Kenneth Kletzer;Pranab Bardhan

  • Size, Productivity, and Returns to Scale: An Analysis of Farm-Level Data in Indian Agriculture

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Decentralizing antipoverty program delivery in developing countries

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • DECENTRALISATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • INTERLOCKING FACTOR MARKETS AND AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT: A REVIEW OF ISSUES

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective

    Pranab K. Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • The New Institutional Economics and Development Theory: A Brief Critical Assessment

    Pranab Bardhan

  • Analytics of the institutions of informal cooperation in rural development

    Pranab Bardhan

  • Decentralization, Corruption and Government Accountability

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Pro-poor targeting and accountability of local governments in West Bengal

    Pranab Bardhan;Dilip Mookherjee

  • Market socialism : the current debate

    Samuel Bostaph;Pranab K. Bardhan;John E. Roemer

  • Institutions matter, but which ones?

    Pranab K. Bardhan

  • Land, labor, and rural poverty : essays in development economics

    Pranab K. Bardhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Dilip Mookherjee
Dilip Mookherjee Boston University
Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur
Maitreesh Ghatak
Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics and Political Science
John E. Roemer
John E. Roemer Yale University
Nirvikar Singh
Nirvikar Singh University of California, Santa Cruz
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu Cornell University
T. N. Srinivasan
T. N. Srinivasan Yale University
Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
Debraj Ray
Debraj Ray New York University

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